A school district in California found itself in hot water this week when the California District of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network filed suit in Fresno County Superior Court, alleging that Clovis Unified School District puts its teens' health at risk by advocating an abstinence-only sexual education curriculum, the Associated Press reports.

Project SOS (Strengthening Our Students) has received more than $6.5 million dollars in federal funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in the past decade, according to the Tracking Accountability in Government Grants System (TAGGS). Founded in 1993, Project SOS is run out of Jacksonville, Fla., and is listed on the TAGGS site as a non-profit class of organization.

In 2011, the Florida Independent tracked down Mullarkey and questioned her about her ties to the controversial church leader. In a phone interview, Mullarkey denied any knowledge of Ssempa's "Kill the Gays" bill. The paper sent Mullarkey news articles and videos, including a YouTube clip in which Ssempa alleges that homosexuals eat feces.

Mullarkey initially told the Independent that Ssempa was a "change agent" and that homosexuals in Africa "have destroyed people’s lives.” However, she later clarified her original statements, asserting that while, "I don’t believe the allegations made about Pr. Ssempa, and he has categorically denied them, I wish to dissociate and distance myself from the allegations of genocide, violence against gays which are attributed to Dr. Martin Ssempa in the US media."

A national study released in 2007 concluded that abstinence-only sex education, a cornerstone of President George W. Bush's social agenda, did not prevent teenage sexual activity, according to the Washington Post.